Endorsements
If you would like to endorse our organization, or a particular effort, please contact info@sensiblewashington.org.
Our proposal to defelonize personal drug possession, announced on August 13th, 2013, has been endorsed by the following lawmakers and organizations:
- State Representative Sherry Appleton (23rd District)
- State Representative June Robinson (Assistant Majority Whip, 38th District)
- State Representative Jim Moeller (Speaker Pro Tempore, 49th District)
- State Representative Jessyln Farrell (Assistant Majority Whip, 46th District)
- State Representative Joe Fitzgibbon (34th District)
- State Representative Chris Reykdal (22nd District)
- State Representative Luis Mosoco (1st District)
- State Representative Gerry Pollet (46th District)
- Senator Jeannie Kohl Welles (36th District)
- King County Councilor Dave Upthegrove
- Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- November Coalition
- Washington CURE
In 2012 our organization collected the following endorsements:
- Judge Jim Gray, 2012 running mate to presidential candidate Gary Johnson, author and former presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California
- Roger Goodman, 45th District Washington State Representative
- Joe Fitzgibbon, 34th District Washington State Representative
- Nick Licata, Seattle City Council-member
- Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Psychiatry Professor, and author of “Marihuana Reconsidered”
- Toby Nixon, Kirkland City Council member, former Washington State Representative (R-Kirkland)
In 2011, we garnered the following endorsements:
- The 27th Legislative District Democrats
- Whatcom County Democrats
- Fidalgo Democrats – Anacortes and surrounding West Skagit Co
- Cannabis Culture
- Grammas for Ganja
- Patients for Full Legalization
- The Washington Teapot Party
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy at Lewis & Clark College
- Norm Stamper, Seattle Chief of Police (Ret.)
- James Bakalar, co-author of Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine.
Our 2010 initiative was endorsed by the following people and organizations:
- Washington State Democrats
- NORML – National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
- NORML – Washington State Chapter
- King County Democratic Central Committee
- The 23rd Legislative District Democrats
- The 30th Legislative District Democrats
- The 37th Legislative District Democrats
- The 39th Legislative District Democrats
- The 41st Legislative District Democrats
- Libertarian Party of Washington
- Whatcom County Democrats
- Norm Stamper, Seattle Chief of Police (Ret.)
- Jim Kenny, Democratic candidate for Snohomish County Prosecutor
- Dr. Lester Grinspoon, MD, faculty emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, and author of “Marihuana Reconsidered”